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Aly

Ethernet wiring question

I bought  a new satellite system (2 Dishes + HD receiver) and the receiver has a built-in Ethernet port in order to connect to the internet and "decrypt" the scrambled channels. The modem is located in my bedroom and the receiver in the living room, about 2 rooms away, I want to have a Lan cable between the modem and receiver, the problem is of course I cant pass the cable on the ground and there is no lan cable in the wall however there is an unused phone cable with (2 pairs inside) which I dont use (Already passing inside the wall), I thought about using it for this task, since the normal network cable is made of 4 pairs of wires, I made a little research and found that only 2 pairs are used, so theoretically the "2 pairs" phone cable can be used as a network cable:

I have connected the cable this way from both ends: (Orange/white, Orange, green/white, blank, blank, Green, blank, blank).
I connected it to the modem from one end, and to my laptop from the other end, it acquired an IP, when I ping the modem the first reply is 1 ms then request timeouts, unplugged it then plugged it again no ip, done again and again until my laptop acquired an IP I pinged same issue happened first reply 1 ms then a set of request timeouts :(
the cable is about 10 meters long, I tried it straight and crossover, anyone have any suggestions ? is it doable or should I stop wasting my time ?

AVOlio

Re: Ethernet wiring question

Hmm, i do not know about the cables man, i cannot help you.
But may i ask, what is the receiver that you got?

Also why didnt you let the satellite guy (which you bought the stuff from) handle all the work?

Aly

Re: Ethernet wiring question

^^
I got the Starcom SR X1005HD Full HD 1080 + Dish (1 meter i think - For hotbird) + Dish  (60 cm - for Nilesat), all for 250$ + installation and 2 cables from the roof to the home in case I want to install another receiver in the future. The receiver alone costs 140$ but the picture is amazing !!!! the HD channels are super gorgeous :) this receiver decrypts almost all scrambled channels, the one I am interested in that the receiver decrypted:
Discovery - All of them (Discovery, Discovery HD, Discovery science, Discovery ID, Discovery history ....)
National geographic - All of them (Nat geo, nat geo HD, nat geo wild, nat geo wild HD, .....)
Jazeera Sport - All of them (+1 ... +10 and I think there is one of 2 HD)
I havent tested everything in it yet but it looks very nice so far.
Things that the receiver couldnt decrypt like the OSN channels.

Back to the topic, the guy installed the dishes and receiver and done the needed configuration, but it is not his job to install an Ethernet cable from my bedroom to the living room, to test the setup I temporarily passed a cable from my room to the receiver on the ground.

scorz

Re: Ethernet wiring question

If you have a wireless modem/router, I suggest you to buy an Access Point and run it as a client. That will cost you about 35$, the main advantage: No Wires!

Aly

Re: Ethernet wiring question

If you have a wireless modem/router, I suggest you to buy an Access Point and run it as a client. That will cost you about 35$, the main advantage: No Wires!

That's option 2, if the wired option reaches a dead end ;)

shant

Re: Ethernet wiring question

try reinstalling the rg-45 headers, i usually confuse the colors and put them in the wrong order

Samer99

Re: Ethernet wiring question

Sorry for hijacking your thread, but why your box was not able to decrypt OSN channels? Is there any box in the market that is able to do that in the mean time? (Because I remember that 2 years ago, there was the Dreambox that was able to decrypt OSN channels).

d3ad

Re: Ethernet wiring question

Sorry for hijacking your thread, but why your box was not able to decrypt OSN channels? Is there any box in the market that is able to do that in the mean time? (Because I remember that 2 years ago, there was the Dreambox that was able to decrypt OSN channels).

there is no decryption of OSN, Dreambox work in a Different way. As for OSN i am using a Dreambox subscription (known as CLINE/CAM) from a local guy @ 80$ for 6 months and it has been atleast 200% more stable than the dongle :) P.S. he has Cablevision also so OSN channels that come on Cablevision are available.

_Mazen_

Re: Ethernet wiring question

I have the same box, i downloaded the new software 1.52 it didn't open any channels for me. Does anyboday know how to install the fixes available on netketsat?